Ok Apple is new, I never put any air freshner in her at all as I cant stand to much of anysmell, ok sometimes not all the time I turn on the ac and it smells like fresh strawberries, my passinger said yesterday after we turned the air on, what is making the car smell like that, I am sumpped, never had any perfume, spray anything in the car at all? no cleaner have used a damp towel to clean......help driving me nuts

 

Maybe Apple isn't such a good name. =)

 

have you looked under the seats for something thats dead.!!!

 

You probably just drove over some strawberries or something... either that or there's a spirit living in your car that is telling you that you should have named your car Strawberry Shortcake...

Try spraying some febreeze through the air vents under your wipers after you start your car in the morning and let it run for about five minutes and see if that doesn't kill the odor.

 

I just happened again, an nothing is dead at all in Apple.... I just got back fro lauderdale, and cleaned and vacuumed here, Lauderdle is a crappy place i called home dor 42 years:(

the funny thing is it a light smell sometimes it does smell like Apples......and i checked for trunk monkeys

 

I once had a very small antifreeze leak. When it got hot, would lose some coolant and the odor from burning off the hot engine would come into the car

I didn't think it smelled like strawberries, but everyone's noses are different!

 

- maybe strawberries fell out of a shopping bag and rolled under a seat?
- maybe someone sat in your car with a perfume "overload"?
- maybe some kids stuck strawberry Bubbleyum in a cubby somewhere?
- maybe you nailed a smurf - wait, that's probably blueberry

 

No perfume i have allergys, anyone with it on know they are sent to the bathroom to wash it off.....No Kids yet in my car,,,,maybe ever.....

poor smurf....just wondering if someone else smells it..........

 

I'm assuming the R56 still has a cabin A/C air filter. This is a way, wayyy long shot, but is it possible the dealer put some kind of air freshener on the A/C filter?

If nothing else, you can smell the A/C filter while you have it out. If there's some kind of smell in the A/C system, it should be very noticeable on the filter.

 

There's a thread around here somewhere with "cheap" replacement cabin air filters. Chances are any "funky" smells are trapped in there and replacing it may freshen things up a bit. Having a spare and changing it sooner won't be a bad idea anyway, especially if you do have bad allergies.
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And no, my Lewis has never smelled like strawberries.

 

Maybe it's just your shampoo fragerance blowin' in the wind

 

hahaha that'd be funny if a car overheats and it smelled like strawberries.. therefore you kept on driving since it smelled so great!

 

use pantene, not fruity.......

Not funny, no even on short 5 mile trips....

 

Seriously, don't overlook this possibility. Antifreeze can have a "sweet" smell that people describe differently. Probably not but better safe than sorry.

 

No strawberry smell, but I have a crayon like smell every now and then when the sunroof is open, but the windows closed. Very strong like.

 

well apple os 2 months old i will keep a eye out for a leak, I had cars that over heat, not the same smell this really does smell like strawberrys....

 

...that would be smurfberry

 

Something that's dead that smells like fresh strawberries...???

How about this suggestion: When you picked up your car for the first time, it had already been cleaned and detailed, correct? Lots of interior car cleaners (and carpet shampoos, and whatnot) have scents to them, and the one the dealership used might've been strawberry scented. You might want to ask the dealership IF they used anything on the car, and if so, WHAT it was.

 

what's there to complain about? Strawberries smell good ...

 

where is the A/C air filter located? and how can u clean it?

 

In the first-gen cars, the access panel for the A/C filter is up under the dash, on the passenger side under the glove box. I'll look on realoem and see if the R56 has it in the same place.

Although you could probably clean it fairly well with compressed air and/or a vacuum cleaner, it's actually meant to be replaced rather than cleaned.

 

when i first picked it up it had a new car smell drove yje 85 miles home and no, strawberry, so not sure just started one day???

 

Not complaining hust want to know where its coming from....

 

I always suspect the AC air filter in such situations.....although I have heard of dirty socks, not strawberries.

 

This might be a long shot, but when I drove a Jeep, I once ran over a partially full 20 ounce coke bottle laying in the road. I later figured out that it splattered all over the undercarriage of the Jeep and every time I would get out of the car it smelled like burned sugar.

I eventually had a whole other problem with ants, though. The ants discovered the sweet residue under the car and I ended up with an ant infestation INSIDE the car. I was spraying, killing, and doing everything possible to get them out. There are so many crevices in a vehicle, I really thought I'd never get them out.

I went to a car wash that does the undercarriage blast right at the beginning and it got it off enough to not attract ants anymore.

Maybe you ran over a soda bottle with Big Red or some other strawberry beverage.